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Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

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Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

By: Nishat Awan

Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series of examples, it reveals how diasporas produce new types of spaces and develop new subjectivities in the contemporary European metropolis. It explores the way in which geo-politics affects individual lives and how national and regional borders inscribe themselves onto diasporic bodies. The book claims that the multiple belongings of diasporic citizens, half-here and half-there, provoke a crisis in the standard modes of architectural representation that tend to homogenise and flatten experience. Instead Diasporic Agencies makes a case for a non-representational approach, where the displacement of the diasporic subject and their consequent reterritorialisation of space are developed as modes of thinking and doing. In parallel, mapping otherwise is proposed as a tool for spatial practitioners to work with these multi-layered spaces. The book is aimed at spatial practitioners and theorists of all sorts - architects, artists, geographers, urban designers - anyone with a general interest in mapping or those interested in working through issues related to migration and the contemporary city.

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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

By: Nishat Awan,Tatjana Schneider,Jeremy Till

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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

By: Nishat Awan,Tatjana Schneider,Jeremy Till

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future. Particularly pertinent in the current economic climate, this book offers the reader new approaches to architectural practice in a changing world. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practicing.

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Urban Wage Earners in Seventeenth Century India

Artisans, Labourers, Service Providers and Entertainers

By: Nishat Manzar

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Urban Wage Earners in Seventeenth Century India

Artisans, Labourers, Service Providers and Entertainers

By: Nishat Manzar

This volume takes a pan-Indian view of different professional groups and service providers mainly based in towns. While Persian texts provide limited information on the subject, European sources in the form of travelogues, letters, memoirs and official reports unfold an interesting panorama on the subject. Here focus has been on the seventeenth century, as some prominent European share holders’ Companies established their warehouses-cum-residential complexes in India in this very century. Officials of these Companies sent to India or elsewhere, maintained proper records of their transactions and interaction with the state officials, common people, servants inside the household and outside, and through their reports attracted many European freebooters also to have a firsthand experience of the East. Here from, we get numerous details on the social life, working conditions, wages and other aspects of life of people who earned their livelihood through manual labour, as conditions in India appeared novel to them and they meticulously recorded everything with much interest. Their information is corroborated with the Indian sources. In both types of sources – Persian and European – artisans, labourers and service providers have generally been projected as ‘poor’, ‘miserable’ and ‘wretched’; who faced exploitation at all levels. Still, their contribution to the economy and society was imperative. Aspects of life of such people deserve a detailed discussion as this volume amply proves. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

By: Nishat Awan,Tatjana Schneider,Jeremy Till

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Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

Urban Wage Earners in Seventeenth Century India

Urban Wage Earners in Seventeenth Century India

Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

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